A federal judge sentenced a Portland man who explicitly texted a 10-year-old girl to five years in prison for possession of child pornography. Andrew Hazelton, 28, pleaded guilty in July to the single crime. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office discovered in 2019 that they were looking for explicit photos of the child on social media, but for unknown reasons that incident did not result in criminal charges. The allegations resurfaced in 2021, when a former employer reported Hazelton to the FBI because he feared a workplace shooting. An investigator then cited the explicit messages to the girl in a search warrant for Hazelton’s phone and discovered dozens of uploaded videos and images depicting child pornography. His arrest drew attention in part because Hazelton is a former member of a white supremacist group. (…) Hazelton is a white supremacist and former member of NSC-131, who was trained in Massachusetts and pushes the racist tropes touted by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.
He was first identified by an anonymous group of anti-fascist activists on Twitter who scour social media and monitor extremist groups to publicly denounce suspected white nationalists and Nazi sympathizers. During April, someone also began posting flyers on telephone poles near his home near the University of New England in Portland, identifying him as a white nationalist. NSC New England, the local chapter of the hate group, kicked him out by name after his arrest in a statement posted on Telegram, an encrypted messaging platform.
via thebharatexpressnews: Portland man who was part of a white supremacist group gets 5 years in a child pornography case